The track combining AI and DePIN is indeed crowded, but there’s one project with a rather unique approach.

Traditional DePIN has some old problems: high device costs and poor privacy protection.

Bluwhale’s solution is quite interesting—they turn smartphones directly into nodes. There’s no need to buy dedicated mining machines; the billions of smartphones worldwide are already ready-made computing devices. This kind of large-scale approach essentially bypasses hardware bottlenecks on a physical level.

The concept of mobile mining sounds simple, but whether it actually works still depends on real-world results.